1980
Court decision / redressBook sources
United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians
Black Hills; Sioux nations
The Supreme Court upheld compensation for the unlawful taking of the Black Hills. Sioux claimants refused the monetary settlement in pursuit of land restoration, exposing the difference between payment and return.
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Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11